The Sister Lamps

Two towers on a rise above the salt pans, lit in the same minute every dusk for ninety-one years.

Three nights ago the western lamp stayed dark.

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🕯️ SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH

Its keeper will tell anybody who asks that nothing is wrong with her lamp.

She is telling the exact truth, and nobody has heard her yet.

You crossed those pans last night on one light. You know what that cost you.

Tomorrow at dusk, nineteen carts cross behind you.

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⚖️ BOTH OF THEM WILL ABIDE BY WHAT YOU SAY

That is the frightening part.

Two people who have been right about each other for a decade — and the pair of you are about to be believed.

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🚫 NO CREATURE, NO COMBAT, NO INITIATIVE

Not one roll for initiative anywhere in this adventure.

The entire pressure is two people and one dusk.

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👥 BUILT FOR EXACTLY TWO PLAYERS

Written for a pair from the first line, not scaled down from four.

🎲 A 40-page duet adventure for D&D 5e — 3 hours, 2 players, level 3.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET — 39 pages, nothing left for you to invent

▪ 5 scenes, every one written out in full: read-aloud text, what happens if they fail, what to do if they skip it

▪ 2 battle maps in three versions each — DM, player, and a copy with no grid. 70 px per 5-foot square, so it drops straight into Roll20 or Foundry already aligned

▪ 4 ready-to-play 3rd-level characters, finished — ability scores, armour class, hit points, attacks, spells and gear. A pair can pick the two they like

▪ Every character in it, player and NPC alike, has a drawn portrait

▪ A plain-English glossary of the basic rules words — DC, saving throws, advantage

▪ A section for your first time running a game

▪ A summary up front listing every scene with its page

▪ 13 secrets — more than any other stop on this road — plus tables and printable handouts

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🧂 PART OF THE SALT ROAD

Sixty miles, sixteen stops, each a day apart. Every one of them has noticed the same thing and not one of them has said so out loud.

This adventure stands completely alone — it needs nothing from any other — but a table that plays four of them starts comparing notes without being prompted.

Ossie Fenn is in this one, and in four more of them.

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You play with one other person and are tired of scaling four-player adventures down

▪ You want an evening with no combat at all, and real pressure anyway

▪ Your table would rather be trusted than be right

▪ You are new to running games and want the read-aloud text already written

▪ You run on Roll20 or Foundry and want maps that import at the right scale

▪ You want to hand your player a finished character instead of spending session one building one

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📄 THE FILES

Four PDFs, plus the maps.

▪ A4 — 40 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ US Letter — 41 pages, colour and printer-friendly

▪ 6 map images

🗺️ The battle maps also print at table scale — two extra PDFs, A4 and US Letter, lay every map out at one inch per five-foot square across numbered sheets with a cut line. Print them at home, tape them together and put miniatures on them.

The printer-friendly build is the same book in pure white, nothing removed.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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📜 THE SMALL PRINT

Compatible with Fifth Edition.

Made with AI assistance: the text and maps of this adventure were written and generated with AI, then edited, checked and laid out by hand.

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🕯️ ONE GOOD EVENING

Games for a table, and for a chair by the fire.